Hi Nils, On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 11:54:24AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >In my case, my tool is not interactive. It generates text output and either >emits all of it on standard out or pipes it to a pager. It is closer to a >tool like ls than mutt in spirit. As far as I know, my tool cannot control >the caret of the output in any meaningful way in this case.
Piping output into a pager is very uncomfortable for screen reader users IMHO. To navigate such content you either have to use the keys of a connected braille device or use the screen reader commands to go through the output. Both variants are much less good then piping the content into a programm where the user can navigate the output just with the normal arrow keys, like navigating through a file in an editor, or piping the content into a textbased browser like w3m where the content also can be navigated by using the arrow keys. At least I do avoid using pagers because I can not use the arrow keys to read the whole content. So, instead doing a ls -1 /dev/ | less I prefere much more this, because in vim I easiely can navigate through the text just using the normal keyboard: ls -1 /dev | vim - Or also this: ls -1 /dev | w3m The same is with the output to the normal screen, not into a pager. Also this content has to be navigated using the screen reader functions which IMO is always much mor les comftable then using just the normal keyboard navigation. But thats all my personal taste. I am much faster using the normal keyboard functions then navigating around with the screen reader or a braille device. Im sure other blind people work completely different... Ciao, Schoepp
